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...patrolling U.S. destroyers. No one on the committee had flatly made any such allegation, though Wayne Morse did come close by declaring that the U.S. had provoked the North Vietnamese. McNamara then released a highly condensed version of his testimony that was hotly criticized by Chairman J. William Fulbright on the grounds that it omitted anything that would damage the Administration's case. The committee's threat to publish the entire transcript prompted the Pentagon to release all but 250 censored words at week's end. Many questions about the incidents of August 1964 still remained unanswered...
Less Than the Full Facts. Fulbright was not exactly polite in his attacks on the Administration. He was also disingenuous when he complained that a naval officer, still unnamed, had been given a psychiatric test because he doubted the official account of the Aug. 4 attack. A psychiatric test is a standard, if seemingly excessive procedure in the U.S. military when a lower-ranking officer questions the statements of his superiors, and the Navy was not necessarily trying to muzzle its critic in this case...
Senator J. W Fulbright has rightly called for a Congressional investigation of the U.S. war policy, and Senator John S. Cooper's suggestion that the Foreign Relations Committee hold open hearings on how to institute peace negotiations could be even more useful. Cooper's plan could place the weight of the whole Foreign Relations Committee behind a critical examination of the war--not just individual dissenting senators...
Both of these arguments are at least debateable. If Senators Fulbright (D-Ark.) and Kennedy (D-N.Y.) are right, the U.S. could make substantial reductions in the scope and nature of its Asian commitments without seriously endangering the country's security. Similarly, it is not at all obvious that American security and well-being depend on the incessant production of more and more modern missiles...
...rumors were whipped up by an anonymous telephone call four days later to one of William Fulbright's Foreign Relations Committee staffers. The caller urged the committee to investigate the reason why Columbia University Physicist Richard Garwin and several other nuclear-weapons experts had been sent recently on a secret mission to Viet Nam. Hence Fulbright's letter to Rusk-who brusquely denied that the Garwin mission had anything to do with nuclear weapons...